A RARE MASSIVE IMPERIAL CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER
A RARE MASSIVE IMPERIAL CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER
A RARE MASSIVE IMPERIAL CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER
A RARE MASSIVE IMPERIAL CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER
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A RARE MASSIVE IMPERIAL CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A RARE MASSIVE IMPERIAL CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
38 ¾ in. (98.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Belle Collection de Porcelaines de Chine d'Emaux Cloisonnes et de Sculptures en Corail; Sotheby Parke Bernet Monaco SA., 4 March 1984, lot 261.
Exhibited
Dallas, The Crow Museum of Asian Art of the University of Texas at Dallas, Five Colors: Chinese Cloisonné Vessels on Loan from the Mandel Family Collection, 28 August 2010-6 June 2011.

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Lot Essay

An almost identical cloisonné enamel censer, and possibly the pair to the present censer, is in the Pierre Uldry Collection and illustrated in H. Brinker and A. Lutz in Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, New York, 1989, pl. 323. The Uldry example, together with a large basin illustrated as pl. 322, are both attributed to the Imperial workshops. The authors note, p. 141, in relation to the censer and basin from the same collection: "an almost simultaneous origin in the second half of the eighteenth century, and in one and the same workshop, presumably the palace workshop in Beijing, can be unreservedly claimed for both pieces.”

Other similar censers supported on cranes include the example in the British Museum, illustrated in China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795, London, 2006, pl. 304, and the censer with similar 'S'-shaped handles shown in a photograph of the interior of the house of the famous Philadelphian art collector Henry C. Gibson, taken c. 1883-84, illustrated in Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties, New York, 2011, p. 204, fig. 10.21. The Gibson censer was one of three cloisonné enamel censer he purchased from the American Centennial Exhibition in 1876.

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